Michael Joseph Gross

Strength is defined in most scientific literature as maximal force. The basic concept for measuring strength is called the one repetition maximum. A one repetition maximum, or 1RM, is the heaviest weight that a person can lift one time with perfect form. It's not a grunting effort. It's not... you know, wrenching your body around to see if you can get the weight up. It's one perfect rep.

Strength is defined in most scientific literature as maximal force. The basic concept for measuring strength is called the one repetition maximum. A one repetition maximum, or 1RM, is the heaviest weight that a person can lift one time with perfect form. It's not a grunting effort. It's not... you know, wrenching your body around to see if you can get the weight up. It's one perfect rep.

Now, to train for strength, it has traditionally been accepted that since about the 1940s, that training at about 80% of one repetition maximum will get the best strength response. We can go way down the rabbit hole on sets and rep schemes. Some people are going to say, if you're lifting anything lighter than you can lift for five or six reps, you're wasting your time.

Now, to train for strength, it has traditionally been accepted that since about the 1940s, that training at about 80% of one repetition maximum will get the best strength response. We can go way down the rabbit hole on sets and rep schemes. Some people are going to say, if you're lifting anything lighter than you can lift for five or six reps, you're wasting your time.

Now, to train for strength, it has traditionally been accepted that since about the 1940s, that training at about 80% of one repetition maximum will get the best strength response. We can go way down the rabbit hole on sets and rep schemes. Some people are going to say, if you're lifting anything lighter than you can lift for five or six reps, you're wasting your time.

Other people say you should really be lifting the amount that you can lift for eight or ten times. The truth is, for people who are just starting out, really anything they do is going to be building strength. But our muscles adapt very quickly. Muscle is one of the most adaptable tissues in the human body. And

Other people say you should really be lifting the amount that you can lift for eight or ten times. The truth is, for people who are just starting out, really anything they do is going to be building strength. But our muscles adapt very quickly. Muscle is one of the most adaptable tissues in the human body. And

Other people say you should really be lifting the amount that you can lift for eight or ten times. The truth is, for people who are just starting out, really anything they do is going to be building strength. But our muscles adapt very quickly. Muscle is one of the most adaptable tissues in the human body. And

After a very short period of time, a couple, three months, if you don't start moving into those higher ranges of weight, you won't continue to be building strength. And the basic principle of progression there, progressive overload, adding strength as you go on so that you can increase your capacity, that's the most basic principle of strength training.

After a very short period of time, a couple, three months, if you don't start moving into those higher ranges of weight, you won't continue to be building strength. And the basic principle of progression there, progressive overload, adding strength as you go on so that you can increase your capacity, that's the most basic principle of strength training.

After a very short period of time, a couple, three months, if you don't start moving into those higher ranges of weight, you won't continue to be building strength. And the basic principle of progression there, progressive overload, adding strength as you go on so that you can increase your capacity, that's the most basic principle of strength training.

Can I tell you a little story about that?

Can I tell you a little story about that?

Can I tell you a little story about that?

There was a young girl in California in the 1950s who loved to go visit her grandmother. They would turn on the Jack LaLanne show and do exercises together in front of the TV. And this little girl grew up learning to love exercise because of that.

There was a young girl in California in the 1950s who loved to go visit her grandmother. They would turn on the Jack LaLanne show and do exercises together in front of the TV. And this little girl grew up learning to love exercise because of that.

There was a young girl in California in the 1950s who loved to go visit her grandmother. They would turn on the Jack LaLanne show and do exercises together in front of the TV. And this little girl grew up learning to love exercise because of that.

now she gets older and her grandmother gets older and her grandmother has a bad fall eventually she breaks her hip she goes into the hospital she goes into the nursing home and it's just that that slope that we've all seen too many times

now she gets older and her grandmother gets older and her grandmother has a bad fall eventually she breaks her hip she goes into the hospital she goes into the nursing home and it's just that that slope that we've all seen too many times

now she gets older and her grandmother gets older and her grandmother has a bad fall eventually she breaks her hip she goes into the hospital she goes into the nursing home and it's just that that slope that we've all seen too many times